black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Isaac Asimov

Education isn’t something you can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Education One Liner Yourself
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Beginning End Reach River Sea Story
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Feeling Goodness Natural
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
ISAAC ASIMOV

Honesty Myself Wrong
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Feeling Happiness Yourself
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Humanity Nation Philosophy Right Understand
There is no more desire to live past one’s time than to die before it.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Death Desire Live Past Time
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
ISAAC ASIMOV

Culture Democracy Goodness Ignorance Intellectual Knowledge Life Meaning Wind Yourself
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Believe Education Kind Myself
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Fact Fiction Growth Science Transformation
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
ISAAC ASIMOV

Annoy Greatness People Thinking

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Isaac Asimov Quotes